I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day
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My Amazon Fire HD tablet, bought new and sealed on eBay for $114.26 in November 2022, cost an additional $266.15 to fully own. Kimi K3 discovered an exploit for $164.25, GLM-5.2 identified its bugs for $21.90, and GLM-5.3 completed the task in one day during an $80 subscription period. The total expense equaled the cost of purchasing the tablet twice.
Although Kimi K3 ultimately failed to create a successful exploit, GLM-5.3 ultimately succeeded in finding a vulnerability. With the help of Claude Code, I spent months on the process, testing various methods to gain full control of the device. The exploit worked due to a use-after-free vulnerability (CVE-2022-38181) in the Arm's Mali kernel driver, which was fixed by Amazon in June 2024.
However, my tablet was running on a previous version of Fire OS, making it vulnerable. After a long process, I successfully owned my tablet using an LLM (large language model).
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